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Today VDF teams up with Schloss Hollenegg for a live tour of the historic castle in Austria with curator Alice Stori Liechtenstein at 6:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

VDF studio profiles: Simone de Gale Architects is a London-based practice that works not just in building and interior design, but has also developed new material technology for the military and secured a masterplan project in Tbilisi, Georgia. Read more View the full article

British designer Thomas Heatherwick has co-designed the replacement for London’s iconic Routemaster bus, mayor Boris Johnson and Transport for London announced this morning. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

UK designer Austin Houldsworth has erected a machine at a park in Cheshire, UK, to fossilise a pineapple and a partridge. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swedish designer David Ericsson has created a furniture range made from leather, wood and linen for his thesis project at the Carl Malmsten Workshop in Sweden. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Canada's Alleles Design Studio has developed a collection of prosthetic leg covers designed to add a human silhouette and a variety of patterns to mechanical artificial limbs (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Cologne 2011: French design brand Ligne Roset have launched a sponge-like sofa by designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec at the imm cologne fair in Germany this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slate roof tiles extend down the exposed north facade of this house in Wales by London studio Feilden Fowles. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: 321,320 people visited the 50th Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan last week, an 8% increase on last year, according to organisers Cosmit. See the full figures below. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The roof of this house in Hashimoto, Japan, by designers Yoshio Oono Architect & Associates folds around to become an exterior canopy with triangular reveals. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the winners of the D&AD awards were announced at a ceremony in London last night. Winners include the iPad and Plumen 001 light bulb in the consumer product design category, Thomas Heatherwick’s Seed Cathedral at Shanghai Expo 2010 and Studio East by Carmody Groarke in the spatial design section, and Puma’s Clever Little Bag in the packaging category. See all the winning projects on the D&AD website. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designer Julian Carratero has used timber that was excavated from Eindhoven’s medieval city walls to make a catapult. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

What appears to be an open tunnel beneath a bridge in northern Spain is in fact a concealed passageway, screened behind a secret mirror. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec have laid a stripy field of fabric inside the Raphael Court of the V&A museum as part of the London Design Festival. You can see an animation of the project over on Dezeen Screen. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Austrian studio [tp3] architekten have completed a stark white house in northern Austria with translucent sliding walls around a grassy courtyard. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish architects Cor & Asociados have completed a pearlescent music hall in a village near Alicante. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Traditional Dutch porcelain company Royal Delft have launched a new contemporary brand, Blue D1653, including this set by Arian Brekveld that looks as though the blue emblems have slipped down the rim of each dish. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architect Hiroyuki Tanaka added diagonal walls and blue lights to this Tokyo apartment. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A room dedicated to ironing is at the centre of a renovated Barcelona apartment with yellow doors and a spinning mirror. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish studio Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos filled a Madrid warehouse with makeshift huts and a wilderness of plants to accommodate a nomadic music academy organised by drinks brand Red Bull. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Our latest Pinterest board collates all the rugs and blankets from the Dezeen archives, including textiles by Studio Makkink & Bey, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Richard Hutten, Damien Hirst and more. Follow us on Pinterest » View the full article

Slideshow: this wooden cabin in Iceland by Reykjavik studio Arkís is split into asymmetric apartments with roofs that slope in alternate directions. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: stairs might be perfectly practical but moving from room to room via a skateboard, slide or climbing wall is far more exciting so here’s a roundup of homes and offices from the pages of Dezeen that feature extreme ways of getting around. (more…) View the full article

Drivers crossing the border from Canada into the USA at Calais, Maine, would never know that there’s a tranquil rock garden sandwiched between the checkpoint buildings designed by New York firm Robert Siegel Architects. (more…) View the full article

The London Design Festival is underway and the sun is shining so if you’re out and about this afternoon be sure to check out the Seven Designers for Seven Dials installations curated by Dezeen (+ map). (more…) View the full article